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E. G. N. SALENIUS. CARTRIDGE MAGAZINE FOR FIRE ARMS.

No. 416,377. Patented Dec. 3, 1889.

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ERIK GUSTAF NIOOLAUS SALENIUS, OF STOCKHOLM, SVEDEN.

CARTRIDGE-MAGAZINE FOR FIRE-ARMS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 416,377, dated December 3, 1889.

Application filed December 2, 1836' Serial No. 220,469. (N0 model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERIK GUSTAF NIcoLAUs SALENIUS, a subjectof the King of Sweden, and a resident of Stockholm, Sweden, have invented certain Improvements in Cartridge- Magazines forFire-Arms, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to so construct a cartridge-magazine for fire-arms that the cartridges will always be free to feed forward and not liable to stick from the entrance of earth, sand, or other material into the magazine. This objectlattain by making onelong side of the magazine yielding or elastic from its closed back edge to the discharge-outlet, so that when loading the fire-arm that side of the magazine will be moved outward by the cartridge-carrier or other part of the mechanism and allow the bottom cartridge to pass from the magazine into the fire-arm. Should the cartridge have stuck from any cause between the walls of the magazine, it must of necessity be freed when one wall of the magazine is wholly or almost wholly moved outward. If the free end of this yielding wall or a part of itis curved over the opening through which the cartridges pass out, the advantage is obtained that the cartridges will be retained in the magazine without the use of any loose lid or other piece or other stopping device.

If the magazine be removed from the firearm before all the cartridges have been used, the remaining ones will be retained in the magazine without requiring the attention of the person using it.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a right-hand side elevation of the magazine, and Fig. 2 is a left-hand side view. Fig. 8 is a front elevation. Fig. 4 is a rear elevation. Fig. 5 is a plan View; and Fig. 6 is a vertical cross section through the magazine and mounted upon the fire-arm for which I obtained Letters PatentNo. 386,659, July24, 1888.

Although the magazine illustrated is especially adapted for application to my said improved fire-arm, my invention may be applied to magazines for other systems of fire-arms.

One long side of the magazine a is here shown divided into three parts I), c, and d from the closed back edge at the top to the open lower end, and the magazine being made of sheet-steel these parts are elastic. The free end of the middle part c, which is the largest of the three parts, is curved over the outletopening at the bottom of the magazine with the view of retaining the cartridges therein.

The parts I) and d are also somewhat curved at their lower free ends to be pushed back by a part of the mechanism of the fire-arm. In my improved fire-arm referred to the laterally-movable carrier, Fig. 6, acts on the ends of these yielding plates. Two pieces 6 and f, carried by the springs Z) and d and projecting over the rigid ends of the magazine, serve as stop-pieces to prevent the springs from enter-' ing within the magazine. The free end of the part c is in this magazine also curved backward or outward again after being curved inward, so that when the magazine is to be filled the cartridges need only be placed separately one at a time against the opening and pressed inward, when the part 0 will yield or be pushed outward and the cartridges enter the magazine. The long walls of the magazine are provided with openings, so that the user can readily see how many cartridges there are in the magazine.

On the back of the fixed long side of the magazine is a flange or projection i, which enters beneath a spring-catch on the fire-arm to fix the magazine to the latter, and projections g h are placed at opposite ends of the magazine to enter notches in the fire-arm for the same purpose.

In using the magazine on the fire-arm the carrier or other moving part when loading pushes back the yielding side ofthe walls of the magazine, so that the cartridges drop down the bottom one into the carrier or other part of the fire-arm from the open end of the magazine, which in this case is downward.

If any other construction of fire-arm should require the magazine to be in a different position, with its discharge end upward, for instance, a spring may be used to press the cartridges toward the opening.

I claim as my invention-- 1. A cartridge-magazine for fire-arms, having one of its long sides yielding and elastic from its closed back edge to its discharge-outlet, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. A cartridge-magazine for fire-arms, having one of its long sides yielding and elastic from its closed back edge to its discharge-outlet, the end of the said side being curved over In testimony whereof Ihave signed my name the outlet, as and for the purpose set forth. to this specification in the presence of two sub- 3. A cart-ridge magazine for fire-arms, havscribing witnesses.

ing one of its long sides yielding or elastic from its closed back edge to its discharge-ont- ERIK GUSTAF INIOOLAUS SALEPIUS' let, the end of the said side being curved over Vitnesses: the outlet and at its extreme end outward NERE A. ELFWING,

again, as and for'the purpose set forth. FREDRIK L. ENQUIST. 

